There are two distinct way to look at it. The first, progress for the sake of progress is not the solution. However, when you think of it, we have been walking using our legs since time immemorial. Is that wrong or does it call for rapid evolutionary prototyping of humans? Maybe, maybe not?
I remember using one of such revolutionary interfaces recently "Bump top desktop", where did that lead us? I was honestly irritated with it. I am of course talking about the visual interface and not of things like memory of last actions performed and understanding the series of events. The nearest things that comes to my mind is "Clippy" from MS Office. Remember how if you used to paste something in every slide, it used to tell you of the Master Slide View? That is the direction interfaces need to go.
Also has anyone used Soulver? For a real metaphor of calculator in the UI, it goes out of box to solve the way people want to deal with it on computer. Using keyboards rather than click point 1/+/2/=
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There are two distinct way to look at it. The first, progress for the sake of progress is not the solution. However, when you think of it, we have been walking using our legs since time immemorial. Is that wrong or does it call for rapid evolutionary prototyping of humans? Maybe, maybe not?
I remember using one of such revolutionary interfaces recently "Bump top desktop", where did that lead us? I was honestly irritated with it. I am of course talking about the visual interface and not of things like memory of last actions performed and understanding the series of events. The nearest things that comes to my mind is "Clippy" from MS Office. Remember how if you used to paste something in every slide, it used to tell you of the Master Slide View? That is the direction interfaces need to go.
Also has anyone used Soulver? For a real metaphor of calculator in the UI, it goes out of box to solve the way people want to deal with it on computer. Using keyboards rather than click point 1/+/2/=